How to drive yourself nutty every fall

I am a sick, sick man.

I'm in three different Fantasy Football Leagues, and I think they have names for that kind of behavior and those names usually appear in psychiatric literature, because it can drive you a little schizo.

Don't believe me. If you watch football, imagine having simultaneously root for your quarterback to throw a touchdown and the opposition to pick off the pass at the same time... and you have to deal with these Wagnerian struggles in every single game you see every Sunday. Or how about having to hope the star player on one of your teams does terribly because this same figure is also a member of a far stronger team in another league that is poised to beat you, a moment that can bring you both joy and sorrow.

Or how about this: you discover that you can do algebra in your head looking at stats during halftime and figuring out if you should be winning or losing come the next morning, because truth be told, math is only good for gambling, sports and saving money, isn't it, because other than those three areas, it certainly hasn't done anything for me.

And you know it is bad when you realize that you studied more for a live draft than you did for a college exam, and even worse when in retrospect you did better on that final than you did picking your own players. It isn't like the value of answer C on the multiple choice test is going to suddenly be wrong because it twisted its ankle on the first page of the test. Then again, only a few people can support themselves with fantasy football, whereas there is good eating in a degreee. lea

I bet you anything that if they did a study, poor fantasy football results would be at least part of the reason for Seasonal Affective Disorder. You just watch.

Tags: fantasy football, seasonal affective disorder, wagner, ring cycle, football, nfl, algebra, crazy, leagues